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Article: Émile Verhaeren
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Émile Verhaeren , 1855-1916, Belgian poet and critic, a Fleming who wrote in French. His dominant passion for social reform found expression successively in a disgust with mankind, as in the naturalistic verse of
Les Flamandes
(1883); in pessimism over the growth of urban industrialization, as in
Les Villages illusoires
and
Les Villes tentaculaires
(both 1895); and finally in optimistic glorification of the energy of man, as in the lyrical
Les Forces tumultueuses
(1902) and
La Multiple Splendeur
(1906). A period of gloom and melancholic unrest in which he traveled over Western Europe and spent much time in London is reflected in a trilogy of ...
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